Conveniently enough, Barty had positioned the cage in front of a full-length mirror hanging on Barty's bedroom door. When he finally stopped his squealing, which wasn't doing him much good in the first place, he got a chance to observe in detail the unwanted and difficult to comprehend transformation that had overcome him.
Reflected back at him came the image of a pig in a cage, dainty cloven hooves on each of its legs. The pig body looked pink enough to provide the color scheme for painting the bedroom of a newborn girl. Looking closer, James could see that the pig's pink skin was covered entirely by a fine coat of bristly white hairs.
In profile, he saw a line of tiny nubs (nipples?) running along his stomach. Counting, he saw nine of them. Turning his body, he saw he had a parallel line of them on the other side. He also noticed a tail, which twisted into a pink corkscrew curlicue also covered with fine bristles.
As he studied all the changes, his anxiety level kept rising. He had to get out of this body and back into his own. He started squealing again. He heard a commotion, but all the noise came from the other side of the door. It sounded like someone was ransacking the place.
"Barty?" His words came out as oinks and snorts. "Anybody?"
He pressed his snout against the grille of the cage. Yes, he had a snout. The very round nostrils flared whenever he snorted or oinked. Little ridges of flesh, accordion-style, were squashed between his face and the tip of the snout. A pair of beady, dark eyes sat on the sides of his face behind the snout. His ears represented the last major change to his head. They looked huge! They resembled two pink funnels with pointy tips on the sides of the head almost directly behind the eyes. Every time he heard a crash beyond the closed door of Barty's room, he almost jumped out of his skin from alarm. Well, if only it could be that easy!
"How am I going to get back in my body?" James wondered.
There might have been more changes worth noting, but he didn't care about getting to know his inner pig. He wanted his human form back.
He heard more terrific crashes, and a thought came to him. If he had been swapped into the pig's body, was the source of all that horrendous noise coming from the pig swapped into his former human body?